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A night of personal improv-ment

After a week of unusual nights out– featuring trampolining, Balkan and Israeli folk dancing and ukulele to name three – tonight had the potential to be the weirdest yet. The Box of Frogs theatre impro workshop is held in Moseley, … Continue reading

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Five things I gained at SXSW 2010

After posting about the 12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010, here’s a more practical roundup of the things I came away with. I gained… * …some content strategy contacts This was one of my main reasons for attending. Content … Continue reading

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12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010

I learnt… * …that Austin looks awesome from the 33rd floor Fringe events outside of the main SXSW programme are occurring all the time. I just found out today for example that there were THREE Twitter parties (not just the … Continue reading

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SXSW Wordle spells ‘Content people want’

I took 16 pages of notes at SXSW Interactive festival this year. It’s hard to get your head around all the difference panels, talks, core conversations and notes-to-self but I think this Wordle shows something of what I was getting … Continue reading

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SXSW – the Glastonbury of conferences

A little SXSW diary catchup… It’s the halfway point of SXSW Interactive and I’m still gearing up into this festival to end all web festivals. Here’s my personal/business mission statement for this year’s event – slightly different from last year … Continue reading

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I am attending these keywords in 2010: SES, SXSWi and CSForum

Somehow I’ve lined up a conference a month for the next three months. Here are their taglines, blurbs and what I’m aiming to do at each one: Search Engine Strategies 2010 London, UK, 15-19 February Tagline: The Original Search Engine … Continue reading

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SXSWi: Monday teh 16th

Spent all day in Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator where the cream of the internet start-ups compete via 2-min elevator pitches to be crowned winner in their category. Kind of a Crufts for online business. Best in show were: Innovative Web technologies … Continue reading

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Hashtag Kebab aka ‘the art of conference jacking’

Undoubtedly the best twitter hashtag of SXSWi, #kebab quickly became the WTF session of the whole interactive festival. Set up by School of Everything, Tuttle, Fix My Street and others, it was a word-of-twitter-mouth, rogue, wind-up unpanel that took over … Continue reading

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SXSWi: Sunday the 15th

11.30am Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities The language of the internet is lagging behind the tech and culture changes… which is presumably why ‘whuffie’ has been picked from a sci-fi story from the creator of Boing Boing … Continue reading

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SXSWi: Saturday the 14th

11:30 AM Blog on Company Time and Get Promoted. Picked up a few tips here but generally the title promised a little more than it delivered. Most interesting was the issue of NOT linking: Apparently a municipality in California is … Continue reading

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